Guys, please: (A) It’s not going to happen. John has his own ideas about how he wants to live out the rest of his competitive athletics career and the environment he prefers to operate within.
(B) It is not only John’s decision who he trains with. It is also the choice of any prospective coach. In my own case, it would take a powerful motivation to get me back into 24/7 active coaching mode because that’s the commitment it takes (time-wise) to be successful at this game.
(C) Jerry: I believed the term I used was “the American Way” (not “system” because we both know there are almost as many “systems” as there are coaches). What I implied was that John seems to enjoy the whole social context of training and living in the US, as distinct his previous experiences training in Australia.
(D) And everything I have said about John is just my personal opinion. I may be 100 per cent wrong, although I doubt it, and if I have misrepresented him I apologise although I do not see such speculation in this case as any sort of slander.